Android beginners course: What is Android?

<div style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTYnNuOlBeXYYJ-54C2UKNlaRSkjV3StL49GeV5hg1Dy8OXpmvF8PQRfuokVRLt6JgIL8nWjLyWoOqAmH8IFDLBTlJ6bCeEzGx5E2NeWl6IjSt1fTSrFq3GsKCU4VFW-cKdhmx9ZEy6Yk/s1600/postimagebackgroud.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="what is android?" border="0" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTYnNuOlBeXYYJ-54C2UKNlaRSkjV3StL49GeV5hg1Dy8OXpmvF8PQRfuokVRLt6JgIL8nWjLyWoOqAmH8IFDLBTlJ6bCeEzGx5E2NeWl6IjSt1fTSrFq3GsKCU4VFW-cKdhmx9ZEy6Yk/s640/postimagebackgroud.png" title="what is android?" width="640" /></a></div> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: red;">     <b><i><span style="font-size: large;">what is android?</span></i></b></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">      <b>Android</b> is now the dominant operating system for mobile devices with nearly 80 percent of the smartphones market.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">      <b>Android </b>is a mobile platform designed  primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers and based on a customised <b>linux </b>kernel that manages the hardware to provide different functionalities such as resources management, networking, drivers and security.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">      <b>Android </b>was initially developed by a group of programmers as a startup, It was  backed financially by <b>google </b>and later bought in 2005.  with the founding of the <b>Open Handset Alliance </b>in 2007, a consortium of hardware, software, and telecommunication companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices, android was announced as an open source operating system and The first Android-powered phone was sold in October 2008.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">      <b>google </b>is considered the basic company in the development of <b>android </b>with the release of the Google Nexus One. And <b>Android </b>platform is still evolving.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">      <b>Android </b>versions are developing under a codename of desserts  and released according to alphabetical order: <b>Cupcake </b>, <b>Donut </b>, <b>Eclair </b>, <b>Froyo </b>, <b>Gingerbread </b>, <b>Honeycomb </b>, <b>Ice Cream Sandwich </b>, <b>Jelly Bean </b>, and <b>KitKat </b>. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">      <b>Google </b>announced On 3 September 2013  that 1 billion activated devices now use the <b>Android OS </b>worldwide. The most recent major <b>android </b>update was <b>Jelly Bean </b>, which was released on commercial devices on 24 July 2013 via an OTA update.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">      On 31 October 2013, Google released  <b>Android </b>4.4 <b>KitKat</b>.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">      <b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">How to begin start developing applications for this platform?</span></i></b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">      Developers have the choice to use <b>Java </b>or C/C++ as their primary programming language. But in practice most <b>android </b>developers prefer using <b>Java </b>with the <b>Eclipse </b>IDE. Tools and support are provided with the official site of <b>android </b>developers to build applications in <b>Java</b>.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">      <b>Android </b>developers  used the <b>Dalvik virtual machine </b>with optimisations for a mobile devices to run <b>java binary code </b>and they rebuilt the standard library and provided a library/framework that runs smoothly even on an older generation mobile device especially, for the UI and graphics library.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">      during developing android apps, we will manage <b>xml </b>codes for UI ( User interface) and <b>java </b>codes for the control of the app functionalities.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">      First we have to set up our <b>android </b>development envirement which will be <a href="http://tutandroidcentral.blogspot.com/2013/11/Android-beginners-course-Setting-up-development-tools.html" target="_blank">the next lesson</a>.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div>

Android beginners course: What is Android?

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